Minerva Solla
Template:TOCnestleft Minerva Solla was in the 1960s an organizer for Young Lords in New York City, she has remained committed to helping working people discover their own power in struggles for justice, dignity and human rights.
Worked at 1199 SEIU Florida.
SEIU
In 1972, Minerva Solla, then a staff member at Roosevelt Hospital, helped her co-workers organize and win union representation through 1199 SEIU.
Comrades
With Bob Wing, Linda Burnham, Gerald Lenoir, Dorian Warren, Minerva Solla, August 23, 2016.
Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s
The Conference on Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the 90s was the Committees of Correspondence's first national conference held in Berkeley, California July 17-19, 1992.[1]
Workshops that were held at the conference on Saturday, July 18 included:[2]
Unorganized What should be the left's role in organizing the unorganized? Can labor's current decline be arrested?
- David Bacon, labor journalist and organizer, Berkeley
- Paul Friedman, vice president for organizing, Local 1199, NY
- Alicia Montes-Matzger, Intl. Rep., International Longshore & Warehousemen's Union
- Maria Pantolja, United Electrical Workers field organizer, No CA
- John Case, former UE organizer, Philadelphia
- Minerva Solla, Field Rep., SEIU Local 250
- Ellen Starbird, labor studies instructor, Laney College, Oakland
Unity Statement
The Unity Statement Signed by Those Arrested was signed by 56 activists arrested in New York City, in front of 26 Federal Plaza June 1 2010, the "third in a series of civil disobedience actions in New York aimed at highlighting the growing human tragedy and unsustainable moral crisis caused by a broken U.S. immigration system badly in need of reform".
Signatories included Minerva Solla SEIU.
References
- ↑ Conference program
- ↑ Proceedings of the Committees of Correspondence Conference: Perspectives for Democracy and Socialism in the '90s booklet, printed by CoC in NY, Sept. 1992 (Price: $4)